Resolved OK What am i doing wrong? trying to restore and update iPhone 5

[Night Spring]

Google "how to edit host file". You'll get plenty of links. Once you know how to,edit it, remove any references to ga.apple,com.

If your host file contains no reference to gs.apple.com, then the only thing I can think of is you have the wrong ipsw file. Double and triple check to make sure you have the right one.

 

[Arnezie]

Google "how to edit host file". You'll get plenty of links. Once you know how to,edit it, remove any references to ga.apple,com.

If your host file contains no reference to gs.apple.com, then the only thing I can think of is you have the wrong ipsw file. Double and triple check to make sure you have the right one.

I did see one post where you put (/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts) in terminal on my Mac and I can see the line that says gs.apple.com but it won't let me delete it.

 

[marccoaraujo]

Go to gs.apple.com on the computer you're trying to restore the device

Where does that lead you to?

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What device do you have? What iOS version are you trying to restore to? Have you checked your hosts file?

I have an iphone 5, and try to restore to ios 6.1.4.I've described my problem here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1613916/

If you could help I'll appreciate

 

[Night Spring]

I did see one post where you put (/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts) in terminal on my Mac and I can see the line that says gs.apple.com but it won't let me delete it.

Sorry, I don"t know how to do this on a Mac -- this is one thiing where Windows is easier, it lets you edit the host file using Notepad. Look harder, the instructions on how to edit it is out there. Maybe try iclarified.com, their tutorials are usually very good.

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I have an iphone 5, and try to restore to ios 6.1.4.I've described my problem here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1613916/

If you could help I'll appreciate

Sorry, but I don't have any other advice to offer than what you got in your own thread. If you are doing everything correctly and you can't get out of error -1, you have a hardware failure.

 

[marccoaraujo]

Sorry, but I don't have any other advice to offer than what you got in your own thread. If you are doing everything correctly and you can't get out of error -1, you have a hardware failure.

It could be a hardware failure, because it starts when my device just keep searching for network, but never find.

If I have to guess the restoring is doing some kind of hardware check, and after found an error, it stops.

I'll take it to an apple store

Tks for your time.

Regards.

 

[darricksailo]

It could be a hardware failure, because it starts when my device just keep searching for network, but never find.

If I have to guess the restoring is doing some kind of hardware check, and after found an error, it stops.

I'll take it to an apple store

Tks for your time.

Regards.

If you bring it in to the apple store when it's on iOS 7, they will refuse service to you. Unless they cannot boot up the device and see that it's on iOS 7

 

[apollo1444]

if you want to downgrade apple is signign 6.0.2 now! for a5+ people

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Im not trying to update to a previous firmware!!!! im trying to update to 6.1.4. and yes loose the jailbreak ! Please don't respond to my post anymore thanks

you can't simply update to 6.1.4 you have to restore first. (because you are jailbroken)

that's why it's failing

 

[Arnezie]

if you want to downgrade apple is signign 6.0.2 now! for a5+ people

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you can't simply update to 6.1.4 you have to restore first. (because you are jailbroken)

that's why it's failing

No it was the host files that needed deleted and now it worked was able to update. Big thanks to nightspring

 

[marccoaraujo]

If you bring it in to the apple store when it's on iOS 7, they will refuse service to you. Unless they cannot boot up the device and see that it's on iOS 7

I know this, but I did another restore directly from itunes and get it back to iOS 6.1.4. It still at the -1 error, but now it's the itunes logo from iOS 6.1.4 that shows up, and not the itunes logo from iOS7.

And more, it doesn't boot up, just keep in a loop at the restore mode. Unless they can track all restores I have made, I think I'm good.

 

[Night Spring]

No it was the host files that needed deleted and now it worked was able to update. Big thanks to nightspring

Glad to hear it worked out. Enjoy your updated iPhone!

 

[marccoaraujo]

I know this, but I did another restore directly from itunes and get it back to iOS 6.1.4. It still at the -1 error, but now it's the itunes logo from iOS 6.1.4 that shows up, and not the itunes logo from iOS7.

And more, it doesn't boot up, just keep in a loop at the restore mode. Unless they can track all restores I have made, I think I'm good.

I took it there, and it really was a hardware problem.

So they gave me a new one.

Problem ended.

Thank you everyone.